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Charles Jones (engineer)

The southern portal of the Sapperton Tunnel
- ... that despite gaining the contract to dig the longest canal tunnel in the UK (pictured), Charles Jones already had a reputation for ineptitude and dishonesty? Source: "In the 1770s he [...] gained a reputation for singular ineptitude if not downright dishonesty [...] however in 1783 he had successfully tendered for driving the 2 mile long Sapperton Tunnel"
Created by MIDI (talk). Self-nominated at 12:11, 19 December 2019 (UTC).